Motorola isn’t reinventing the wheel with the Moto G Stylus for 2025, but it is improving the mid-range smartphone where it counts. And when the only other stylus-enabled smartphone is the $1300 Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, it might be all it needs.
Moto G Stylus has a 6.7-inch Super HD POLED display with a refresh rate of 120 Hz and a maximum brightness of 3000 nits. Like the previous Moto G Stylus, this year’s model also features a 5000 mAh battery, which Motorola says provides 40 hours of use on a single charge. It’s paired with a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chip, 8GB of RAM, and either 128GB or 256GB of storage – a good step up from the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 in the previous Moto G Stylus.
In addition to the updated internals, the Moto G Stylus is also much more water and dust resistant. The phone is IP68 waterproof and MIL-STD-810H certified, which means it’s protected from dust and rain, and can withstand drops from “nearly 1.5 meters and full immersion in water up to 1.5 meters deep for up to 30 minutes,” according to Motorola.
The main improvement to Motorola’s Moto G Stylus is to make it more sensitive. The new stylus is “6.4 times” more sensitive than the previous generation and can also be used with new Android features such as Circle to Search and Motorola’s Sketch to Image, which can turn doodles into detailed images using artificial intelligence.
Despite all these changes, the Moto G Stylus is not too different from the new Moto G and Moto G Power that Motorola announced in January, with a textured faux leather back in blue-green or bright blue, and a raised plateau for the camera system. The selfie camera on the front of the Moto G Stylus has a resolution of 32 megapixels, while the rear cameras include a 50 megapixel shooter with optical image stabilization, a 13 megapixel ultra-wide angle/macro shooter and a “3-in-1 light sensor”.
The Moto G Stylus will launch on April 17 in unlocked form for $399.99 at Amazon, Best Buy, and Motorola’s website. The phone will also be available in the coming months on Metro by T-Mobile, Visible, Total Wireless, Straight Talk, AT&T, Cricket, Spectrum Mobile, Consumer Cellular, UScellular, Xfinity Mobile, Google Fiber Wireless, Optimum Mobile and Boost Mobile networks.
